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ya know that there is a winXP copatible version of this game included in CnC The First Decade?

I have TS working fine in XP. I don't have Firestorm though. My friends and I even tried some multi but the net code is really horrible with this game and it started to really chug when anything was happening. It runs like wildfire in single player though.

AFAIK, the First Decade versions are exactly the same as previous versions (except of course the issues experienced in the First Decade box because they messed things ups).

Don't emulate it. There is no need. I have played it on XP, XP pro, and XP pro 64 bit. It will run faster, hope this helps. Emulation actually slows a game down substantially. If ther is no need to emulate, run it native.

original Red Alert 2 has random crashes on winXP... TFD Red Alert 2 runs fine. this is my point in that the TFD is better compatability with winXP... i am also aware of the extra bugs in it but hopefully they will be fixed.

Nearly a year later, I have found the solution.

I run a program called FRAPS. Through trial-and-error, I've isolated the problem to FRAPS. If I close FRAPS, the crashing stops.